Tony Holohan said : “I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say”

irishmirror Sunday, May 24, 2020 1:00:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “the reality is any form of movement of people in and out of any setting increases the risk of transmission of this infection”

thejournal Saturday, May 23, 2020 4:37:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say"

irishmirror Saturday, May 23, 2020 3:35:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say”

independent-ie Saturday, May 23, 2020 2:00:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “There has been some congregation and we don’t expect we’re going to see 100% compliance all of the time by everybody. So some of the kinds of scenes you’ve described, I have seen one or two of them myself on social media, are exactly examples of things we don’t want to see happening,”

thejournal Saturday, May 23, 2020 12:50:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say”

independent-ie Friday, May 22, 2020 9:44:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We have had some reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients – that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 20, 2020 1:30:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “the reality is any form of movement of people in and out of any setting increases the risk of transmission of this infection”

thejournal Wednesday, May 20, 2020 12:03:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We have had some reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients – that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop”

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:13:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "employers should not be receiving result for employees"

RTERadio Tuesday, May 19, 2020 10:33:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "employers should not be receiving result for employees"

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:39:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added ( about Team ) : “The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet again this week. Given the decreasing positivity rate and that testing capacity has been expanded, we will be examining the case definition further”

irishmirror Tuesday, May 19, 2020 8:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added : “The challenge of keeping up to date with the administrative tasks is significant,”

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 6:57:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We have had some reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients – that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop”

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 5:18:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "On the first day of Ireland moving into Phase One of reopening we have experienced the lowest number of deaths since March 27. "

irishexaminer Monday, May 18, 2020 8:13:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “So this is an additional hygiene measure. It’s not a magic bullet for this disease, and that has to be understood,”

thejournal Monday, May 18, 2020 2:41:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While the past nine weeks have been particularly difficult for those cocooning, and for parents with young children, today’s numbers give reassurance that we have all learned and adopted new behaviours of handwashing, respiratory etiquette and social distance that will serve us well as we work together to re-open retail, business and society,”

longfordleader Sunday, May 17, 2020 1:58:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While the past nine weeks have been particularly difficult for those cocooning, and for parents with young children, today’s numbers give reassurance that we have all learned and adopted new behaviours of hand washing, respiratory etiquette and social distance that will serve us well as we work together to re-open retail, business and society,”

thejournal Saturday, May 16, 2020 9:17:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today is the first time we have seen the number of confirmed cases fall below 100 since mid-March,"

leinsterexpress Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:57:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today is the first time we have seen the number of confirmed cases fall below 100 since mid-March,"

RTERadio Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:52:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While the past nine weeks have been particularly difficult for those cocooning, and for parents with young children, today’s numbers give reassurance that we have all learned and adopted new behaviours of handwashing, respiratory etiquette and social distance that will serve us well as we work together to re-open retail, business and society,”

limerickleader Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today is the first time we have seen the number of confirmed cases fall below 100 since mid-March,"

leitrimobserver Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:37:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan warned : “we cannot regard face coverings as some sort of magic shield . . . It’s a supplement to the other measures we are recommending”

irishtimes Saturday, May 16, 2020 2:55:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "There have been 230 suspected cases in Europe and two deaths,"

herald-ie Saturday, May 16, 2020 4:34:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We all know the Irish weather. It can rain or get chilly and then everyone goes indoors,"

herald-ie Saturday, May 16, 2020 4:34:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Disposable gloves work in medical settings. They are not as effective in daily life," "If you sneeze or cough into the glove, it creates a new surface for the virus to live on"

herald-ie Saturday, May 16, 2020 4:34:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “If you’re meeting and maintaining social distancing for very short periods of time, with numbers less than four people, I think that’s appropriate for somebody who’s in a cocooning category,” “But starting to recommend people go back into retail environments, we would still be advising against that for people who are cocooned”

thejournal Friday, May 15, 2020 11:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “It may well be that if you have a very specific condition, it’s the advice of your doctor which is important with respect to that,”

thejournal Friday, May 15, 2020 11:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "There is no certainty of its direct association with Covid-19,"

RTERadio Friday, May 15, 2020 9:08:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I think that the majority of hospitals have taken the responsible and legally mandated action to report these cases,” “This is all set out in the 1947 legislation the notification of infectious diseases”

waterford-news Friday, May 15, 2020 9:33:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “A very large number of cases, built up over a period of time in one location, that weren’t reported to us, that was something that we couldn’t have known about from where we sit and they were all reported in one day,”

independent-ie Friday, May 15, 2020 12:15:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I think the vast majority of hospitals have taken the responsible and legally mandated action to report these cases,”

independent-ie Friday, May 15, 2020 12:15:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "There has been a reporting of one large number of cases that accumulated over a period of time diagnosed in respect of one specific hospital and reported by the occupational health department of that hospital"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added : "They were accumulated, we weren't aware of them, and they were reported in one group today to add to the number we would have diagnosed over the course of the day,"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added : "We still want to see progress over the coming days. We need to continue our physical distancing and hygiene measures if we are to continue to suppress the spread of the disease"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said ( about Team ) : “The National Public Health Emergency Team met today and have given further advice to Government. "We need to continue our physical distancing and hygiene measures if we are to continue to suppress the spread of the disease”

irishexaminer Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:42:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We still want to see progress over the coming days. We need to continue our physical distancing and hygiene measures if we are to continue to suppress the spread of the disease"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,”

westernpeople Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,"

irishexaminer Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,”

waterford-news Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:59:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:46:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We don’t have very many studies at this point in time that looked at this question. Those that have looked at this question haven’t identified a significant pattern of transmission among children,”

irishtimes Wednesday, May 13, 2020 10:21:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I would urge everyone to become familiar with the behaviours that we all need to maintain, including respiratory etiquette, physical distancing and handwashing. "As we begin to think about easing restrictions these behaviours will become even more important”

irishexaminer Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:48:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While I can completely understand what that means for brides and grooms, we’re not in a position to give assurance that we will be able to see at a point in time weddings of a certain type and social activities of that scale, or any social activity of a similar scale, being reintroduced,”

carlow-nationalist Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:54:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While I can completely understand what that means for brides and grooms, we’re not in a position to give assurance that we will be able to see at a point in time weddings of a certain type and social activities of that scale, or any social activity of a similar scale, being reintroduced,”

waterford-news Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I’m not commenting on Ryanair particularly but our position at the moment is we are advising against all non-essential travel, I don’t envisage that position will have changed in that time frame”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 13, 2020 11:56:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan added : "We don't want to see people coming here for non-essential reasons and leaving for non-essential reasons,"

herald-ie Wednesday, May 13, 2020 4:44:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government's roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with Covid-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospitals and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:23:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I'm not commenting on Ryanair particularly but our position at the moment is we are advising against all non-essential travel, I don't envisage that position will have changed in that time frame"

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospitals with this disease. Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health. (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin) "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospitals with this disease. (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin) "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We are continuing to examine the progress of the disease and though we are still making progress, which is giving us real encouragement, we need to keep going. "

RTERadio Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We are continuing to examine the progress of the disease and though we are still making progress, which is giving us real encouragement, we need to keep going. "We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospital. We have more work to do”

todayfm Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:28:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government’s Roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with COVID-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospital and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:23:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We are continuing to examine the progress of the disease and though we are still making progress, which is giving us real encouragement, we need to keep going. We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospital. We have more work to do”

irishtimes Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:20:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We will give formal consideration to that but I’m not anticipating that we will be making it mandatory,”

westernpeople Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today isn't the day that we're going to be making the assessment, we'll do that over the course of this week, towards the end of the week we'll arrive at an assessment and we'll make that advice available to Government," "But I would say at this stage we think and we're hopeful that we'd be in a position to make a positive recommendation in relation to those restrictions and all of the considerations that have to go into that for Monday"

eecho Tuesday, May 12, 2020 12:21:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today isn't the day that we're going to be making the assessment, we'll do that over the course of this week, towards the end of the week we'll arrive at an assessment and we'll make that advice available to Government," "But I would say at this stage we think and we're hopeful that we'd be in a position to make a positive recommendation in relation to those restrictions and all of the considerations that have to go into that for Monday"

independent-ie Monday, May 11, 2020 11:56:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “we don’t think this is something that is happening to a great extent, though of course we can’t say that it isn’t happening”

irishexaminer Monday, May 11, 2020 10:13:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government’s Roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with COVID-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospital and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government's roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with Covid-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospitals and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Monday, May 11, 2020 8:11:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We do in principle see a role in certain settings and we are doing some work at the moment to try to develop the necessary guidance”

irishexaminer Monday, May 11, 2020 8:11:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We gave consideration to the whole question of travel and point of entry,”

beat102103 Saturday, May 9, 2020 10:39:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We gave consideration to the whole question of travel and point of entry,"

irishexaminer Saturday, May 9, 2020 12:00:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Analysis of multiple data sources shows a continuing high level of compliance with public health measures. "

RTERadio Friday, May 8, 2020 8:42:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The pubs came to us in March and said we understand your public health advice but we don't think we can implement it in pubs and that was the reason they were asked to close on that occasion. "

leitrimobserver Friday, May 8, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I don't see any realistic prospect of pubs in June, no - a straight answer to your question"

leitrimobserver Friday, May 8, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The pubs came to us in March and said we understand your public health advice but we don't think we can implement it in pubs and that was the reason they were asked to close on that occasion. "

offalyexpress Friday, May 8, 2020 5:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I don't see any realistic prospect of pubs in June, no - a straight answer to your question"

offalyexpress Friday, May 8, 2020 5:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The comparisons that are being drawn are not valid comparisons. "

irishmirror Friday, May 8, 2020 4:46:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Pubs came to us in March and said we understand your public health advice and we don't think we can implement it. So that's why pubs were asked to close. I know many parts of society are making a case to be in earlier phases. I don't see any realistic prospect of pubs opening in June, is the straight answer"

RTERadio Friday, May 8, 2020 4:39:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The comparisons being drawn are not fair comparisons,”

thejournal Friday, May 8, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Now we look to the pattern of Covid-19 going forward, as we attempt to ease restrictions,”

irishexaminer Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:00:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “These weeks are just as important as the first weeks of our response. Our behaviours are crucial in maintaining our progress and keeping the reproduction number below one,”

thejournal Thursday, May 7, 2020 9:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we get closer to a point where we can continue to reduce restrictions, the measures that we have in the airport will become more and more important from our point of view. "

RTERadio Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:58:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The reproduction number is between 0.5 -0.6. We have achieved our goal of suppressing the spread of the disease, it was not easy for anyone but there is no question that our collective effort has saved lives,” “Now we look to the pattern of Covid-19 going forward, as we attempt to ease restrictions. These weeks are just as important as the first weeks of our response. Our behaviours are crucial in maintaining our progress and keeping the reproduction number below 1”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The reproduction number is between 0.5 -0.6. We have achieved our goal of suppressing the spread of the disease, it was not easy for anyone but there is no question that our collective effort has saved lives,” “Now we look to the pattern of Covid-19 going forward, as we attempt to ease restrictions. These weeks are just as important as the first weeks of our response. Our behaviours are crucial in maintaining our progress and keeping the reproduction number below 1”

westernpeople Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:08:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan says : “We are seeing a persistent number of infections coming from the community”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan says : “We are seeing a persistent number of infections coming from the community”

waterford-news Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:11:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The World Health Organization has advised that a likely future scenario in the dynamic of Covid-19 is recurring epidemic waves interspersed with periods of low-level transmission,”

carlow-nationalist Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:04:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The World Health Organization has advised that a likely future scenario in the dynamic of Covid-19 is recurring epidemic waves interspersed with periods of low-level transmission. "

RTERadio Wednesday, May 6, 2020 8:26:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan told : “We are going to be conservative about this. We are going to be cautious about this,”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 6, 2020 1:16:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We are clear on the economic and social and educational impacts arising,”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 6, 2020 1:16:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As far as I'm concerned, I haven’t come across any tension"

RTERadio Tuesday, May 5, 2020 10:34:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “it is crucial that we preserve the progress our country has made in recent weeks” “This is a highly infectious disease. It thrives in crowds. It has the potential to rapidly spread to levels that our health service will find difficult to respond to,”

irishtimes Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:19:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The advice now is that we shouldn’’t lift restrictions,"

irishexaminer Saturday, May 2, 2020 11:28:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “That was the next priority because there was much more infection there, frankly, than was in the general population, and that in public health terms had to come ahead in priority of broadening a case definition focused on the community. And so that’s why that sequence arose,”

thejournal Saturday, May 2, 2020 8:05:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We as healthcare professionals are one part of a system, and that sometimes medicine, while it has given us huge advances, can still find it difficult to come up with answers,”

irishtimes Friday, May 1, 2020 8:47:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We understand the challenges that represents for individuals, people over the age of 70, people in vulnerable groups, who we’ve asked to cocoon at home, it’s a very difficult measure,”

thejournal Friday, May 1, 2020 2:18:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We’re seeing around 100-200 cases per day from the population in general. Those are close to the figures we were seeing back in March when we introduced these measures,” “Notwithstanding the progress we have made, we think the case hasn’t arisen yet to give us a reasonable belief that now is the time to lift restrictions,”

irishtimes Friday, May 1, 2020 12:01:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Since the pandemic began in Ireland, 72 nurses, 40 healthcare assistants, 22 doctors and 45 other allied healthcare workers have been hospitalised with Covid-19,”

irishtimes Friday, May 1, 2020 12:01:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We’ve now had reports of 371 clusters, that’s an increase of two since yesterday and 219 of which are in nursing homes and that is the same number as yesterday, no additional nursing homes identified since yesterday,” “The total number of cases we have had 4,590 cases identified in those community residential facilities. That is an increase of 227 cases since yesterday”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We've now had reports of 371 clusters, that's an increase of two since yesterday and 219 of which are in nursing homes and that is the same number as yesterday, no additional nursing homes identified since yesterday," "The total number of cases we have had 4,590 cases identified in those community residential facilities. That is an increase of 227 cases since yesterday"

irishexaminer Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say”

irishmirror Sunday, May 24, 2020 1:00:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “the reality is any form of movement of people in and out of any setting increases the risk of transmission of this infection”

thejournal Saturday, May 23, 2020 4:37:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say"

irishmirror Saturday, May 23, 2020 3:35:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say”

independent-ie Saturday, May 23, 2020 2:00:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “There has been some congregation and we don’t expect we’re going to see 100% compliance all of the time by everybody. So some of the kinds of scenes you’ve described, I have seen one or two of them myself on social media, are exactly examples of things we don’t want to see happening,”

thejournal Saturday, May 23, 2020 12:50:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I have not seen any worrying trend in relation to those but it is too early to say”

independent-ie Friday, May 22, 2020 9:44:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We have had some reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients – that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 20, 2020 1:30:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “the reality is any form of movement of people in and out of any setting increases the risk of transmission of this infection”

thejournal Wednesday, May 20, 2020 12:03:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We have had some reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients – that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop”

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:13:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "employers should not be receiving result for employees"

RTERadio Tuesday, May 19, 2020 10:33:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "employers should not be receiving result for employees"

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:39:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added ( about Team ) : “The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet again this week. Given the decreasing positivity rate and that testing capacity has been expanded, we will be examining the case definition further”

irishmirror Tuesday, May 19, 2020 8:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added : “The challenge of keeping up to date with the administrative tasks is significant,”

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 6:57:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We have had some reports of employers receiving results in respect of individual patients – that’s a breach of confidentiality. Full stop”

independent-ie Tuesday, May 19, 2020 5:18:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "On the first day of Ireland moving into Phase One of reopening we have experienced the lowest number of deaths since March 27. "

irishexaminer Monday, May 18, 2020 8:13:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “So this is an additional hygiene measure. It’s not a magic bullet for this disease, and that has to be understood,”

thejournal Monday, May 18, 2020 2:41:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While the past nine weeks have been particularly difficult for those cocooning, and for parents with young children, today’s numbers give reassurance that we have all learned and adopted new behaviours of handwashing, respiratory etiquette and social distance that will serve us well as we work together to re-open retail, business and society,”

longfordleader Sunday, May 17, 2020 1:58:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While the past nine weeks have been particularly difficult for those cocooning, and for parents with young children, today’s numbers give reassurance that we have all learned and adopted new behaviours of hand washing, respiratory etiquette and social distance that will serve us well as we work together to re-open retail, business and society,”

thejournal Saturday, May 16, 2020 9:17:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today is the first time we have seen the number of confirmed cases fall below 100 since mid-March,"

leinsterexpress Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:57:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today is the first time we have seen the number of confirmed cases fall below 100 since mid-March,"

RTERadio Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:52:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While the past nine weeks have been particularly difficult for those cocooning, and for parents with young children, today’s numbers give reassurance that we have all learned and adopted new behaviours of handwashing, respiratory etiquette and social distance that will serve us well as we work together to re-open retail, business and society,”

limerickleader Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today is the first time we have seen the number of confirmed cases fall below 100 since mid-March,"

leitrimobserver Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:37:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan warned : “we cannot regard face coverings as some sort of magic shield . . . It’s a supplement to the other measures we are recommending”

irishtimes Saturday, May 16, 2020 2:55:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "There have been 230 suspected cases in Europe and two deaths,"

herald-ie Saturday, May 16, 2020 4:34:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We all know the Irish weather. It can rain or get chilly and then everyone goes indoors,"

herald-ie Saturday, May 16, 2020 4:34:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Disposable gloves work in medical settings. They are not as effective in daily life," "If you sneeze or cough into the glove, it creates a new surface for the virus to live on"

herald-ie Saturday, May 16, 2020 4:34:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “If you’re meeting and maintaining social distancing for very short periods of time, with numbers less than four people, I think that’s appropriate for somebody who’s in a cocooning category,” “But starting to recommend people go back into retail environments, we would still be advising against that for people who are cocooned”

thejournal Friday, May 15, 2020 11:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “It may well be that if you have a very specific condition, it’s the advice of your doctor which is important with respect to that,”

thejournal Friday, May 15, 2020 11:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "There is no certainty of its direct association with Covid-19,"

RTERadio Friday, May 15, 2020 9:08:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I think that the majority of hospitals have taken the responsible and legally mandated action to report these cases,” “This is all set out in the 1947 legislation the notification of infectious diseases”

waterford-news Friday, May 15, 2020 9:33:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “A very large number of cases, built up over a period of time in one location, that weren’t reported to us, that was something that we couldn’t have known about from where we sit and they were all reported in one day,”

independent-ie Friday, May 15, 2020 12:15:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I think the vast majority of hospitals have taken the responsible and legally mandated action to report these cases,”

independent-ie Friday, May 15, 2020 12:15:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "There has been a reporting of one large number of cases that accumulated over a period of time diagnosed in respect of one specific hospital and reported by the occupational health department of that hospital"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added : "They were accumulated, we weren't aware of them, and they were reported in one group today to add to the number we would have diagnosed over the course of the day,"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan added : "We still want to see progress over the coming days. We need to continue our physical distancing and hygiene measures if we are to continue to suppress the spread of the disease"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said ( about Team ) : “The National Public Health Emergency Team met today and have given further advice to Government. "We need to continue our physical distancing and hygiene measures if we are to continue to suppress the spread of the disease”

irishexaminer Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:42:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We still want to see progress over the coming days. We need to continue our physical distancing and hygiene measures if we are to continue to suppress the spread of the disease"

RTERadio Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,”

westernpeople Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,"

irishexaminer Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:10:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,”

waterford-news Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:59:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Because we have some things to consider we have advice to give government as a result of our consideration and I think it will take government time to consider and digest that,”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:46:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We don’t have very many studies at this point in time that looked at this question. Those that have looked at this question haven’t identified a significant pattern of transmission among children,”

irishtimes Wednesday, May 13, 2020 10:21:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I would urge everyone to become familiar with the behaviours that we all need to maintain, including respiratory etiquette, physical distancing and handwashing. "As we begin to think about easing restrictions these behaviours will become even more important”

irishexaminer Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:48:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While I can completely understand what that means for brides and grooms, we’re not in a position to give assurance that we will be able to see at a point in time weddings of a certain type and social activities of that scale, or any social activity of a similar scale, being reintroduced,”

carlow-nationalist Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:54:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “While I can completely understand what that means for brides and grooms, we’re not in a position to give assurance that we will be able to see at a point in time weddings of a certain type and social activities of that scale, or any social activity of a similar scale, being reintroduced,”

waterford-news Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “I’m not commenting on Ryanair particularly but our position at the moment is we are advising against all non-essential travel, I don’t envisage that position will have changed in that time frame”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 13, 2020 11:56:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan added : "We don't want to see people coming here for non-essential reasons and leaving for non-essential reasons,"

herald-ie Wednesday, May 13, 2020 4:44:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government's roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with Covid-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospitals and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:23:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I'm not commenting on Ryanair particularly but our position at the moment is we are advising against all non-essential travel, I don't envisage that position will have changed in that time frame"

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospitals with this disease. Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health. (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin) "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospitals with this disease. (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin) "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:25:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We are continuing to examine the progress of the disease and though we are still making progress, which is giving us real encouragement, we need to keep going. "

RTERadio Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:10:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We are continuing to examine the progress of the disease and though we are still making progress, which is giving us real encouragement, we need to keep going. "We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospital. We have more work to do”

todayfm Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:28:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government’s Roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with COVID-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospital and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:23:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We are continuing to examine the progress of the disease and though we are still making progress, which is giving us real encouragement, we need to keep going. We still have 70 people in ICU and over 500 people in hospital. We have more work to do”

irishtimes Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:20:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We will give formal consideration to that but I’m not anticipating that we will be making it mandatory,”

westernpeople Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today isn't the day that we're going to be making the assessment, we'll do that over the course of this week, towards the end of the week we'll arrive at an assessment and we'll make that advice available to Government," "But I would say at this stage we think and we're hopeful that we'd be in a position to make a positive recommendation in relation to those restrictions and all of the considerations that have to go into that for Monday"

eecho Tuesday, May 12, 2020 12:21:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Today isn't the day that we're going to be making the assessment, we'll do that over the course of this week, towards the end of the week we'll arrive at an assessment and we'll make that advice available to Government," "But I would say at this stage we think and we're hopeful that we'd be in a position to make a positive recommendation in relation to those restrictions and all of the considerations that have to go into that for Monday"

independent-ie Monday, May 11, 2020 11:56:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “we don’t think this is something that is happening to a great extent, though of course we can’t say that it isn’t happening”

irishexaminer Monday, May 11, 2020 10:13:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government’s Roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with COVID-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospital and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we approach May 18th, the next date highlighted in the Government's roadmap, we continue to monitor key parameters associated with Covid-19. These include the number of new cases, numbers admitted to hospitals and currently in ICU and the number of deaths. "

irishmirror Monday, May 11, 2020 8:11:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We do in principle see a role in certain settings and we are doing some work at the moment to try to develop the necessary guidance”

irishexaminer Monday, May 11, 2020 8:11:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We gave consideration to the whole question of travel and point of entry,”

beat102103 Saturday, May 9, 2020 10:39:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We gave consideration to the whole question of travel and point of entry,"

irishexaminer Saturday, May 9, 2020 12:00:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Analysis of multiple data sources shows a continuing high level of compliance with public health measures. "

RTERadio Friday, May 8, 2020 8:42:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The pubs came to us in March and said we understand your public health advice but we don't think we can implement it in pubs and that was the reason they were asked to close on that occasion. "

leitrimobserver Friday, May 8, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I don't see any realistic prospect of pubs in June, no - a straight answer to your question"

leitrimobserver Friday, May 8, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The pubs came to us in March and said we understand your public health advice but we don't think we can implement it in pubs and that was the reason they were asked to close on that occasion. "

offalyexpress Friday, May 8, 2020 5:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "I don't see any realistic prospect of pubs in June, no - a straight answer to your question"

offalyexpress Friday, May 8, 2020 5:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The comparisons that are being drawn are not valid comparisons. "

irishmirror Friday, May 8, 2020 4:46:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "Pubs came to us in March and said we understand your public health advice and we don't think we can implement it. So that's why pubs were asked to close. I know many parts of society are making a case to be in earlier phases. I don't see any realistic prospect of pubs opening in June, is the straight answer"

RTERadio Friday, May 8, 2020 4:39:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The comparisons being drawn are not fair comparisons,”

thejournal Friday, May 8, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Now we look to the pattern of Covid-19 going forward, as we attempt to ease restrictions,”

irishexaminer Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:00:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “These weeks are just as important as the first weeks of our response. Our behaviours are crucial in maintaining our progress and keeping the reproduction number below one,”

thejournal Thursday, May 7, 2020 9:16:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As we get closer to a point where we can continue to reduce restrictions, the measures that we have in the airport will become more and more important from our point of view. "

RTERadio Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:58:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The reproduction number is between 0.5 -0.6. We have achieved our goal of suppressing the spread of the disease, it was not easy for anyone but there is no question that our collective effort has saved lives,” “Now we look to the pattern of Covid-19 going forward, as we attempt to ease restrictions. These weeks are just as important as the first weeks of our response. Our behaviours are crucial in maintaining our progress and keeping the reproduction number below 1”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The reproduction number is between 0.5 -0.6. We have achieved our goal of suppressing the spread of the disease, it was not easy for anyone but there is no question that our collective effort has saved lives,” “Now we look to the pattern of Covid-19 going forward, as we attempt to ease restrictions. These weeks are just as important as the first weeks of our response. Our behaviours are crucial in maintaining our progress and keeping the reproduction number below 1”

westernpeople Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:08:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan says : “We are seeing a persistent number of infections coming from the community”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan says : “We are seeing a persistent number of infections coming from the community”

waterford-news Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:11:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “The World Health Organization has advised that a likely future scenario in the dynamic of Covid-19 is recurring epidemic waves interspersed with periods of low-level transmission,”

carlow-nationalist Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:04:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The World Health Organization has advised that a likely future scenario in the dynamic of Covid-19 is recurring epidemic waves interspersed with periods of low-level transmission. "

RTERadio Wednesday, May 6, 2020 8:26:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan told : “We are going to be conservative about this. We are going to be cautious about this,”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 6, 2020 1:16:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We are clear on the economic and social and educational impacts arising,”

irishmirror Wednesday, May 6, 2020 1:16:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "As far as I'm concerned, I haven’t come across any tension"

RTERadio Tuesday, May 5, 2020 10:34:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “it is crucial that we preserve the progress our country has made in recent weeks” “This is a highly infectious disease. It thrives in crowds. It has the potential to rapidly spread to levels that our health service will find difficult to respond to,”

irishtimes Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:19:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "The advice now is that we shouldn’’t lift restrictions,"

irishexaminer Saturday, May 2, 2020 11:28:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “That was the next priority because there was much more infection there, frankly, than was in the general population, and that in public health terms had to come ahead in priority of broadening a case definition focused on the community. And so that’s why that sequence arose,”

thejournal Saturday, May 2, 2020 8:05:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We as healthcare professionals are one part of a system, and that sometimes medicine, while it has given us huge advances, can still find it difficult to come up with answers,”

irishtimes Friday, May 1, 2020 8:47:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We understand the challenges that represents for individuals, people over the age of 70, people in vulnerable groups, who we’ve asked to cocoon at home, it’s a very difficult measure,”

thejournal Friday, May 1, 2020 2:18:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We’re seeing around 100-200 cases per day from the population in general. Those are close to the figures we were seeing back in March when we introduced these measures,” “Notwithstanding the progress we have made, we think the case hasn’t arisen yet to give us a reasonable belief that now is the time to lift restrictions,”

irishtimes Friday, May 1, 2020 12:01:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “Since the pandemic began in Ireland, 72 nurses, 40 healthcare assistants, 22 doctors and 45 other allied healthcare workers have been hospitalised with Covid-19,”

irishtimes Friday, May 1, 2020 12:01:00 AM EAT

Tony Holohan said : “We’ve now had reports of 371 clusters, that’s an increase of two since yesterday and 219 of which are in nursing homes and that is the same number as yesterday, no additional nursing homes identified since yesterday,” “The total number of cases we have had 4,590 cases identified in those community residential facilities. That is an increase of 227 cases since yesterday”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:03:00 PM EAT

Tony Holohan said : "We've now had reports of 371 clusters, that's an increase of two since yesterday and 219 of which are in nursing homes and that is the same number as yesterday, no additional nursing homes identified since yesterday," "The total number of cases we have had 4,590 cases identified in those community residential facilities. That is an increase of 227 cases since yesterday"

irishexaminer Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:16:00 PM EAT